Off By One #3: Jeff Atwood on Stack Overflow, Discourse, and Building a Better Internet
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A high-energy episode of Off By One featuring Jeff Atwood and Leo Laporte discussing forum software, Markdown standards, naming disasters in tech, prop show-and-tell (Pip-Boys, collectible yo-yos), behind-the-scenes stories of Stack Overflow and Discourse, comment spam fighting, software development quirks, and the mission to build a better internet.
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· 3 pulledJeff Atwood and Leo Laporte swap stories and laughs in this high-energy episode of Off By One!
Dive into the wild world of forum software, the battle over Markdown standards, naming disasters in tech, epic prop show-and-tell moments...
Plus, insights on fighting comment spam, the quirks of software development, and why building a better internet still matters.
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